Articles tagged with: Center for Leadership
Faculty Notes: January 2012
Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems
An article titled “Health Informatics: Critical to Healthcare’s Success” by Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor and director of graduate health management programs, was published in the South Florida Hospital …
Subscription rate soars for Center for Leadership’s “Leading” newsletter.
John F. Kennedy said “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
That reasoning explains the success of Leading, the electronic quarterly newsletter launched in 2011 by the Center for Leadership in the College of Business …
Four Steps to Flustering Your Competition
Walking through airport lounges, surfing channels in my hotel room, I’m struck by how many kung fu fights and ancient grand battles fill the screens. I suppose this is China, after all, native home of …
Faculty Notes: November 2011
Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam was featured along with nine other deans of business schools in an article titled “Ten on Ten,” which appeared in the November/December issue of BizEd, a publication of AACSB. Her …
Panel of experts presents new research on international leadership.
Florida International University (FIU), South Florida’s leading business school with a unique expertise in international business, provided the appropriate setting for the “Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty: The Evolving Leader in a World without …
Companies should be an incubator for talent of all ages, Harvard professor tells leadership group.
If you think you’re smart at age 30, wait until you see how brilliant you can be at age 60. Or older.
That happy news was a key message in “The Further Reaches of Adult Development,” …
Ten Rules For Entrepreneurs To Live By
My mind is buzzing with thoughts of a book I just finished reading: The Intelligent Entrepreneur by Bill Murphy Jr. The author follows the inspiring stories of three entrepreneurs who turn their backs on traditional …
Using Customer Mind-Reading and Customized Content to Transform Your Brand
Experts are terrible at predicting the future. At the dawn of the age of air travel, experts shared a compelling vision: a personal airplane in every garage. When the tape recorder was introduced, experts warned …
Faculty Notes: July 2011
School of Accounting
Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership, was recently appointed to a team that is helping the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) set standards related to the preparation …
Miami-Dade County principals receive intensive leadership enhancement.
With almost 35 years in education and as principal of a top-performing high school of 3,000 students, Nick JacAngelo might be a hard man to impress. But the 2011 Principals Leadership Development Program at Florida …
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
The central, most telling question to ask a leader is, whom do you serve?
Some leaders will tell you, using a popular descriptor, that they aspire to be “servant leaders.” The question still remains, however, a …
Lasting, positive changes made possible through "Women on the Move."
“I was thoroughly impressed with how the ‘Women on the Move’ program helped me better understand my strengths, make positive changes and develop an on-going strategy for my business,” said Maria Elena Aitken, one of …
ASTAR’s John Dasburg heads up Entrepreneurship Week for International MBA students.
“By far, it was the most productive week I’ve ever experienced,” said Summia Chaudhry, a student in the International MBA (IMBA) program at Florida International University (FIU). “We received advice from an amazing lineup of …
The Flow of Technology Adoption Reverses.
This week I listened to the CEO of a large technology firm I’ve been working with share his views on the future. One small comment he made struck me. If he is right, this could …
